Khameleon Classics Podcast
1) The Making of Khameleon Classics, with Shivaike Shah
In the final episode of Khameleon Classics, host Shivaike Shah and assistant producer Malin Hay look behind the scenes at the making of the show, and discuss how a project that was conceived as a five...Show More
2) Statues Then and Now, with Verity Platt
In the last decade, public statues have become a focal point for debates about the remembrance and commemoration of history. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, Edward Colston in Bristol, and Cecil R...Show More
3) Classics and Du Bois, with Mathias Hanses
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the foremost thinkers and writers about race in the period directly after Reconstruction. He was also a professor of Classics who engaged closely with a number of...Show More
4) Classics and the Reconstruction, with Jackie Murray
Throughout the Reconstruction era, from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to the start of the Jim Crow era at the end of the nineteenth century, both Black activists and white supremacists use...Show More
5) Classics Beyond Whiteness, with THM Gellar-Goad and Caitlin Hines
What happens when, in the wake of worldwide upheaval, a Classics department decides to put into practice the principles of anti-racism and social justice in the classroom? Wake Forest University in Wi...Show More
6) Classics and the Politics of Migration, with Demetra Kasimis
What can reading classical political texts teach us about our own politics? This is the question that Demetra Kasimis, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is answering with ...Show More
7) Classics Beyond Whiteness, with THM Gellar-Goad and Caitlin Hines
What happens when, in the wake of worldwide upheaval, a Classics department decides to put into practice the principles of anti-racism and social justice in the classroom? Wake Forest University in Wi...Show More
8) Latin Poetry in the Caribbean, with John Gilmore
The role of Latin in Britain’s eighteenth-century Caribbean colonies was multifaceted. The ability to speak the language was a status symbol for the colonial elite, and Latin texts often served as att...Show More
9) Classical Reception: A Failed Revolution? with Luke Richardson
For generations, the Classical discipline’s exclusive study of Greece and Rome went unquestioned, as did its position at the heart of the humanities. Greece and Rome’s literature, art and intellectual...Show More
10) Liquid Antiquity, with Brooke Holmes
When we imagine the curation of antiquities, especially classical antiquities, we usually think of preserving the past within museums and other cultural institutions. But we rarely ask what we are pre...Show More